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Sleep time: About 2 AM.
Dream option: Walking through a forest.The dream: An unknown, faceless partner and I drove through the streets of a metropolitan area with an attaché suitcase between us. While we never looked inside, the general feeling was it was full of shining gold light, like in Pulp Fiction, which means we’d either been entrusted with Marcellus Wallace’s soul, or it’s just some nonsense Tarantino threw into my dream because it looks “cool.” Halfway through the trip, we discovered we were driving through a forest with extremely tall trees (think: Vertigo), but we didn’t feel out of place. Until people started shooting at us. Then we tried to seek cover, bark shattering all around us, and I woke up.
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Sleep time: Around 2 AM.
Dream option: Flying.The Dream: Most of it’s hazy, but I was definitely standing on the steel skeleton of a building-in-progress. And then I was falling. At some point, either a strong gust or some unseen force (Harvey?) pushed me off the beam I was balancing on and I fell, presumably to my death. But you know, you wake up before then, so I didn’t feel the impact.Effectiveness: It worked if you want to extend the definition of "flying" to include "falling," which no one should ever want to do because those are two distinctly different fucking feelings.

Sleep time: Around 2:30 AM.
Dream option: Romance (for Men)
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Sleep time: 2:30 AM or so.
Dream option: Riches, although in this case my girlfriend chose the dream without my knowing which one it was, to hopefully take out the possibility that I was triggering it myself with subconscious hope.The dream: Abso-fucking-lutely nothing. For neither my lady friend nor myself. Although, to be honest, that could very well have been that I was never able to get into REM sleep mode, as evidenced by my actually being awake when my phone delivered the dream-influencing soundtrack.Effectiveness: At the very least, I did discover the app actually does produce sounds, which is something, I suppose.

Sleep time: Roughly 2 AM.
Dream option: The nebulous “thumbs up” sign, whatever that means.The dream: Once again, nothing. Not even a vague sense of accomplishment or a mob of Japanese people bowing and giving me thumbs-ups.Effectiveness: Oh, just forget it. This is getting boring now. It's probably best this app is free. Science over!
